Hari-kirtana is an author, mentor, and yoga teacher who shares his knowledge and experience of how the yoga wisdom tradition can guide us toward meaningful and transformative spiritual experiences.
The Perfection of Imperfection
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Greetings Reader - Our free monthly series, Community Conversations, resumes this week with my good friend and long-time bhakti-yoga practitioner, Yasoda Mensah. Yasoda will guide us into a discussion about what yoga philosophy has to say about making mistakes, and how bhakti, devotional yoga, helps us embrace the perfection of imperfection. Yasoda is the owner of Trifolia Natural Products and Botanicals and the Director of Three Leaf Farmden, a project that's dedicated to pushing the boundaries on what we know about health, healing and spirituality by raising consciousness through education, sustainability, utility and self-realization. She's been a practitioner, educator, and counselor in the bhakti-yoga tradition for over thirty years and has lived and worked on three continents, during which time her passion for and knowledge of the Earth, environment, health and herbal medicines has grown and deepened. Yasoda holds a bachelor’s degree in microbiology, a Masters in therapeutic herbalism and is a certified facilitator through the Institute for Applied Spiritual Technology. We'll also talk about the opportunity that Yasoda offers to qualified volunteers for short stays at the Farmden, where you can reconnect to the Earth through sustainable agriculture, engage in practices designed to nurture spiritual awareness, learn about medicinal plants and their preparation and experience living in community. I hope you'll join us for our next COMMUNITY CONVERSATION a free monthly study group Live via Zoom @ 12:00 pm Eastern Time NEXT CONVERSATION: Wednesday, September 18, 2024 THE PERFECTION OF IMPERFECTION This conversation will be recorded and available for replay on my YouTube channel Registration is free – CLICK HERE to get updates and the Zoom link! Community Conversation is a FREE monthly online gathering where we connect spiritual ideas to real life. If you haven't registered for our free monthly Community Conversations yet, CLICK HERE to get updates and the Zoom link for the live discussion, and the recording link so you can listen to the replay if you can't join us live. If you're already registered, you'll get reminder emails with the Zoom link next week. I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts on cultural appropriation and the most constructive ways we can respond to it. Hoping to see you this Wednesday, - Hari-k |
Hari-kirtana das
Hari-kirtana is an author, mentor, and yoga teacher who shares his knowledge and experience of how the yoga wisdom tradition can guide us toward meaningful and transformative spiritual experiences.
Greetings Reader - Cultural appropriation is a significant concern in our yoga community. However, despite our best intentions, we can unintentionally engage in it. And the reason may surprise you. Cultural appropriation in yoga is often seen as reducing practices to trendy aesthetics, taking traditional teachings out of context, and ignoring colonial histories that led to a commodified version of yoga that caters to Western consumer culture. While these points are all valid, they stem from...
Greetings Reader - Our free monthly series, Community Conversations, continues next week with my good friend, Sara Sheikh. Sara is a yoga teacher and a licensed clinical social worker with a trauma-informed holistic approach to therapy. She provides mental health counseling to people of all ages who are hoping to shed behaviors, feelings, and ways of thinking that no longer work for them. Her work is about empowering people to mindfully engage in a process of self-discovery and...
Greetings Reader - At the beginning of the Bhagavad-gita, Arjuna, the hero of the Gita, is paralyzed by grief and confusion as he foresees the death and destruction that an imminent confrontation will surely bring about. At the end of the Bhagavad-gita, Krishna, the teacher of the Gita, reassures Arjuna that the cause for which he’s been called to fight is just, his victory certain, and he has no reason to be fearful. Of course, a lot happens in between the beginning and the end to bring...